Summer Wrestling Clinics • All Ages
June / July 2025
Location: Aquinas Wrestling Facility, 1501 St. Andrews Street (next to Three Rivers Performance)
Cost: Varies by age group (includes a free T-shirt)
Attire: Athletic shorts, a t-shirt, and socks are recommended; you may also bring wrestling shoes and headgear if desired. Please bring a water bottle.
Schedule
- K–2nd Graders:
Sessions are held on Tuesdays or Thursdays from June 3 to July 29, 2025, from 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM. Cost is $25 per wrestler. - 3rd–5th Graders:
Sessions are held on Tuesdays or Thursdays from June 5 to July 31, 2025, from 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM. Cost is $25 per wrestler. - 7th -12th Graders:
Sessions are held on Tuesdays or Thursdays from June 3rd to July 31, 2025, from 7:45 AM to 9:15 AM. No practices week of June 30th. Cost is $50 per student.
Note: There is no practice on Tuesday, July 1, and no practice on Thursday, July 3.
7th – 12th Grade State Champ Summer Camp
June 26th -28th
Location: Aquinas Wrestling Facility, 1501 St. Andrews Street (next to Three Rivers Performance)
Cost: $75 per wrestler
Attire: Athletic shorts, a t-shirt, and socks are recommended; you may also bring wrestling shoes and headgear if desired. Please bring a water bottle.
Schedule
- Sessions are held June 26th – June 28th (3 days) from 8:00am – 10:30am each day
Note: There is no practice on Tuesday, July 1, and no practice on Thursday, July 3.
Aquinas Wrestling Programs
*Children from any local school, in K – 6th grade, are welcome to participate.
Our Promise To Parents and Students
Aquinas Wrestling will use wrestling as a tool to help shape the boys who come into the program into young men of high character and integrity. This will be done using the discipline, hard work and dedication required of by wrestling, along with the modeling our coaches display both in the practice room and daily lives. Our goal is not to only create great wrestlers, but great young men who will one day become outstanding sons, fathers, brothers, husbands and citizens within their community.
Frequently Asked Questions
Will my child have to lose weight in wrestling?
A: Absolutely not! In the youth through middle school wrestling programs, there is absolutely no talk or discussion of weight loss with our wrestlers. In all of the competitions that wrestlers in these age groups may attend, they would wrestle at their natural body weight and wrestle against kids of similar size and ability level. At the high school level, we promote a healthy eating lifestyle with a well-rounded diet with an emphasis on whole foods and staying away from fast or fried foods. We believe this helps with both performance and recovery and allows the student/athlete perform at their highest levels daily.
I hear wrestling is violent and will cause my child to be aggressive. Is that true?
Is wrestling dangerous? I worry about my son/daughter being injured.
Will wrestling make my child’s ears look funny? (Cauliflower ear/wrestler’s ear)
I hear wrestlers contract a lot of skin infections, is that true?
Why should my child wrestle?
A: All children should wrestle at some point in their youth! Here are 10 reasons why all kids should wrestle, even if they decide not to stick with it through high school.
1. Foundation sport. Wrestling is the perfect foundation for all other sports. Wrestling is balance, agility, hand –eye coordination, flexibility, positioning, strength, speed, explosiveness, footwork, hustle, mental focus, mental toughness, core strength, concentration, competition, and endurance. Wrestling will make our youth better at all other sports.
2. Fun. Wrestling is a game. It is the most basic and instinctual game. Toddlers wrestle. The sport of wrestling is the ultimate competition where two individual take their individual strengths and match them up against each other. Wrestling is a battle of wits, technique, speed, agility, flexibility, and toughness. No two wrestlers are alike. Fun stuff!!
3. Exercise. Wrestling is one the world’s most premier physical fitness sports. Wrestling develops strength and endurance. Poor health is a major issue in our society today and wrestling will help develop a love of exercise and physical fitness in our youth.
4. Self-confidence. Very little is accomplished without self-confidence. Wrestling teaches self-confidence like nothing else I know. Insecure people have the most difficult time learning from others and make progress even more difficult than it already is. Wrestling teaches hard work, self-improvement, sense of accomplishment, camaraderie of team, 1 on 1 aspect, and self-defense to name a few. These promote self-worth, respect and confidence.
5. Self-defense. Although wrestling is not commonly considered a “martial art,” it is the #1 base discipline in the world of MMA. Wrestlers know how to defend themselves and neutralize threats quickly. Wrestling is controlling an opponent. If you want your kids to know how to defend themselves, put them in wrestling.
6. Humility. Nothing teaches humility better than a 1-on-1 sport. Winning and losing in a 1-on-1 setting brings humility. There is nowhere to hide and no one to blame but yourself. All wrestlers will lose at some point and doing so in these conditions teaches humility. Hard work and discipline are two keys to success in wrestling and both teach humility.
“…I learned a lot about taking responsibility for my actions when I wrestled for 4 years…All professional athletes ought to spend a year wrestling. It teaches you something, you get pinned; you can’t blame the coach. You can’t blame your teammates. The guy you are looking for is staring back at you in the mirror” –former Phillies pitcher Mitch Williams
7. Respect. The challenges of being a wrestler teach you to respect yourself. After you learn to respect yourself you will learn to respect others. You learn to respect your team mates as well as your opponents. You learn to listen to and respect your coach. After you learn to respect others you are able to learn from them, a life lesson.
8. Self-discipline. Wrestling is discipline. Repetition of drills, hard work, weight management, and continually doing the best thing instead of the easiest thing is discipline. Wrestling requires postponing instant “wants” to gain something more valuable long term. It takes discipline and focus to reach goals.
9. Roadmap to success. Wrestling is the perfect example of what it takes to be successful in life. Goal setting, hard work, determination, focus, love of challenges, love of competition, confidence, being coachable, mental toughness, discipline, creativity, team work and accountability.
10. Toughness. Wrestling is a physical, contact sport. You learn that sometimes you just get poked in the eye. Physical and mental toughness go hand in hand. You learn that a little pain or struggle is part of the process of doing great things.
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